CRANIO SACRAL weekend was extraordinary.

Mandy (my new friend from the am class) and I had to confess our stillpoint addiction. It's so amazing. Just the lightest touch, not even moving, just cradling the occiput (the back of the head) and out you go... Right to dreamland, although it's not really like sleeping. It's kind of like lucid awakeness, if that makes any sense. A lot of us saw weird stuff, colors, lines. Some relived birthing(both being born and giving birth), some experienced amazing sensations.

When you hold the cranial rythm at the occiput still, it's as though you are filling up with energy. A lot of us reported feeling as though they'd slept for hours, even though it only lasts a few minutes. It's an amazing place to be, inside your completely still body. Our teacher Hannah explained it as being like a reset button for the body. Our bodies do it naturally themselves, but sometimes they don't get around to it and they really need that pause-to observe, to heal, to correct little imbalances and stuck spots.

It may sound a little crazy to the scientifically minded, but emotions can be stored in body areas and then released during a cranio sacral session, along with associated sensations, visions and sounds. And when you hold someones skull in your hand and feel the bones move, watch them go into a deeper consciousness... Well, it's just a pretty amazing thing to do. Almost like some sort of instant meditation, like accessing the spirit for a moment.

Another incredible thing about the class was seeing all the amazing structures we have in our heads. Like the SPHENOID bone, one of the skulls interior boney plates. It lies behind our eyes (and most of the eye muscles are attached to it) and it looks like a butterfly. Beautiful, I think I'm gonna sculpt one-maybe as an angels wings.

Stillpoint. Yeah, I'm hooked.